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Amazon Chime — Frustration-free video calls. Amazon's Skype competitor.
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@nivo0o0 Amazon is so nailing the frustrations of conference calls with distributed teams in meeting-centric corporate cultures with the video above...i take my life into my own hands everytime i have to punch in a conference call code on the road. Love the positioning.
@aaronsuplizio @nivo0o0 Actually not really, I suspect they stole the idea from these guys:
https://www.uberconference.com [see video]
and that video is even more demonstrative of typical issues..
@benln I wonder what % of workforce in that total employment figure is fulfillment/blue collar vs highly-skilled labor/engineering. Latter is probably comparable to GOOG & MSFT. Still though, they are everywhere and AWS continues to fuel their investment.
@emmanuel_lemor @aaronsuplizio @nivo0o0 they stole the idea of easier video conferencing? see also webex, gotomeeting, blue jeans, zoom, lifesize, highfive, joinme, zoho, hangouts, skype and yes, uberconference (which i use).
Exited to give this a try. Webex has been frustrating. If Amazon can't nail this then I'm going back to two cans and a string.
Man, I just wrote about how Amazon will become a Trillion $$$ company (https://medium.com/@kirillzubovs...) and that's an exciting future, but seeing apps like this also makes me scared for the future of startups. Amazon has amassed such power, they can out-execute and outrun anyone, and given that everything is stored on S3, it's only a matter of time. What do you guys think? How do you compete with a power giant that can copy any tool that they need?
@kirillzubovsky for startups, there is always room for innovation. Only difference is your startup has to be unique and disruptive enough to make it otherwise no hope for generic solutions, the big dogs are clearly more hungry.
@gollyjer I was already unhappy with Zoom coming to the market, more and more such apps mean we corporate ppl can't decide which one to follow.
Nowadays, the interactions are, "What time does work for you on Skype or Zoom?"
Now it'll be, "What time do we chime/zoom in? Or do we Skype?"
@abdussamit @gollyjer Or you could just use join.me, which is purpose built for working with people outside of your company. No downloads for them, no logins. < 5 seconds they are connected via web. (disclaimer: admittedly biased towards join.me)
@craigdaniel @gollyjer Seems cool to me, pls drop me an e-mail at tayyab.abdussami@gmail.com, I am up for testing it with someone :)
@craigdaniel we're having major screenshare issues on our corporate account. is there anything you suggest that reduces the choppiness/lag we're dealing with? Our WiFi runs about 400 Mbps up and 400 Mbps down in each of our four offices across the country so it's definitely not a speed issue.
For what it's worth my current videoconference love affair is Pluot: https://pluot.co
The video is great and speaks to all of our problems. First impression from the tool though - Very poor UX! :(
This is pretty terrible. We tried it today and it's as bad or worse than others. Forces users to download a client to see video or shared screen and the audio/video controls are well, sub-optimal and old. Clients who are technically inept will have huge problems with this. Nice marketing video though.
On one hand, I fear the UI. On the other, I love the Pied Pier level of AWS awesomeness.
We use G+ hangouts. Native screenshare and up to 15 in the call at once. $5/month with a Google Business plan. Not $5 per user, $5 for the team. Recording meetings, static URL... Really, why people gush over this is beyond me.
@osakasaul Agree, this one is free only for 1:1 calls so I wonder for the market share they will gain
I wonder if this is another one of these tools they were using internally and decided it was good enough to release it to the world
Tried it this morning for a team meeting spanning New York, Amsterdam & Delhi & it worked really well. We'd been having troubles with Skype lately for similar calls and have to say the first time experience was really good. Will be using again for sure!
I like it, but clearly the pricing is for enterprise not the regular guy. I'm basing that on the inability to record without shelling out $15 per person.
One of my predictions for 2017: Amazon will buy Slack. Chime shows they are seriously committed to cooperative work technologies.
The difference between basic and plus is negligible especially because there is still only a max of 2 people. So realistically any serious business, which I'm assuming are the targets have no choice but to go for top tier. It's a shame that there is no middle ground as Skype allows for more than 2 and so does a lot of other free services.
Amazon just released their competitor to Skype, WebEx, Google Hangouts, Zoom (which just raised a massive $100m from Sequoia), etc.
Another example of how Amazon is branching into everything from software to hardware to original content to (maybe) trucking company.
Sooo, when is Alexa getting a screen? 🤔
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